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Your opportunity indeed! Coming on the last day of June Saturday and Sunday 1 July at the Heritage Centre, Ruddington, is the annual GCRN Model Railway event – at which full access will be there for visitors to see our rebuilding of 1:1 scale Barnum no.228. We will be delighted to show you around. Step…

It is really happening on Barnum no..228 up at Ruddington – and there is an open invite for bods with practical skills to come and help our small team, helped enormously by Peter Wilson’s wizardry with wood and metal….! Current state is that the interior side panelling of this Barnum are transforming – despite having…

Thanks to the skills of the Centre’s woodworking volunteers, take a nice comfortable step up for a close-up inspection of the fabulous little vintage 6-wheel carriage now on display at Nunckley Hill Museum – with the arrival of a new access stairway and platform. You can now admire the carefully upholstered compartment interior of this…

After a blitz on rust and scale, the frames of Barnum no.228 advanced in a sequence that allows for the floor timbers to be reinstalled and the next stage of assembly of newly machined and shaped teak boards to be fitted. Since these floor timbers were placed originally in 2002 when the Barnum was in…

Brand new castings have been delivered for attachment to the Barnum no.228. GCR Rolling Stock Trust took the decision to recast four of the cast-iron buffer casings as those taken from the three Barnums would not make up an original four. A feature of the casting is the challenging top mounted footstep. Under Peter Wilson’s…

Greetings Barnum followers….. This time we have real good and real bad news to impart….. Big strides continue with the fitting out of the Barnum body-shell – with the floor taken up in sequence over the bogies. The first bogie on cursory inspection from above appears to have considerable weight of metal. But the second…

Thanks especially to a master woodworking craftsman with 56 years experience, work on transforming the hulk of Barnum no.228 at the Ruddington Heritage Centre has taken a massive leap forward. Scores of workings of seasoned teak, recovered from a now demolished bonded warehouse in Nottingham, have been machined, cut to size and shaped – to…

The best news of 2018 from the Rolling Stock Trust…..! We are on our way big time with our next restoration project, Barnum saloon no.228! Thanks to amazing woodworking skills – machining and profiling teak boards for cladding of internal and external body sides – a dramatic advance is in the offing. And if you…

Do we have vacancies? Do we have need of volunteers? We do. Old and new….! This is to help us restore our Barnum no.228 which is feeling a bit naked, awaiting recladding and a host of jobs of all types. If you are a woodworker or a DIY expert here is something really different –…

When the 17-ton ML&SR was drawn out of the Engineering Shop at Ruddington on Saturday 16 September, GCRN Director Ron Whalley was in charge. There was a classic “prototype for everything” moment as he used Steve Turner’s Class 47 no. 47492 to effect a major yard shunt to position the vintage 129-year-old 6-wheel carriage for the…